{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-work-scotland-act-1968/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-work-scotland-act-1968/section-73.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/49",
  "legislation_title": "Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-work-scotland-act-1968",
  "path": "section/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Supervision of children moving to Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) Where a juvenile court in England or Wales or in Northern Ireland is satisfied that a child in respect of whom a probation order or a supervision order is in force proposes to reside or is residing in Scotland, the court may either—\n(a) discharge the probation order or supervision order; or\n(b) send notification of that order to the Principal Reporter\nand on the receipt of such a notification it shall be the duty of the Principal Reporter\n(i) in the case of a supervision order made by virtue of sections 189(4) and 390(4) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 to notify the appropriate court and to transmit to that court all documents and certified copies of documents relating to the case which the Principal Reporter has received by virtue of section 76 of this Act;\n(ii) in any other case.\nto arrange a children’s hearing for the consideration and determination of the case under Part III of this Act.\nIn this subsection “the appropriate court” means the sheriff having jurisdiction in the area in which the child proposes to reside or is residing or, where the original probation order was imposed by the High Court of Justiciary, that Court.\n(1A) Where a court in England or Wales is satisfied that a child in respect of whom the court proposes to make a supervision order is residing or proposes to reside in Scotland, the court may make the order notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of section 18 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (which relates to residence of the supervised person in England or Wales); and where the court makes a supervision order by virtue of this subsection—\n(a) the areas to be named in the order in pursuance of subsection (2)(a) of the said section 18 shall be those in which the court is sitting;\n(b) the order may require the supervised person to comply with directions of the supervisor with respect to his departure to Scotland, and any such requirement shall, for the purposes of sections 15 and 16 of that Act (which relate to the variation and discharge of supervision orders), be deemed to be included in the order in pursuance of section 12(2) of that Act; and\n(c) the court shall send notification of the order as mentioned in paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection and the provisions of that subsection relating to the duty of the Principal Reporter shall apply accordingly.\n(2) For the purposes of a children’s hearing arranged in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this section the notification by a . . . court of a probation order or supervision order shall be conclusive evidence of the existence of that order in relation to the child.\n(3) When a children’s hearing have disposed of a case referred to them under this section the probation order or the supervision order in respect of the child shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 73(1)(b) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 76(22); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 73(1)(i)(1A)(c) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 76(26)(27); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 73(1)(i)(ii) inserted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54, SIF 20), s. 73(4)(c), Sch. 5 para. 59(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 460(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Definition inserted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54, SIF 20), s. 73(4)(c), Sch. 5 para. 59(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 73(1A) inserted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54, SIF 20), s. 73(4)(c), Sch. 5 para. 59(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words substituted by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54, SIF 20), s. 73(4)(c), Sch. 5 para. 59(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54, SIF 20), s. 73(4)(d), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1969 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 73(1) extended (E.W.) (S.) by Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 189(6), 390(6) (which said ss. 189(6), 390(6) ceased to have effect (1.10.1992) by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), s. 16, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 7(4) (with s. 28); S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/49/section/73",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:29.441282+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}